TABLE 28 shows the changes that occurred, from 1970 to 1980, in the earnings of women full-time workers relative to that of men, in various occupations. The TABLE also indicates the earnings, in 1980, of women relative to men within the single educational attainment level most common for each occupation.

Note especially:

• Women in 1980 still earned less than men in every occupational category.
  
  
• Women earned more, relative to men, in 1980 than in 1970 in every occupational category.
  
  
• The largest gains from 1970-1980 were in the Medicine/Health (34% to 49% of men's wage), Sales (46% to 57% of men's wage), and Managerial/Administrative occupations (51% to 60% of men's wage).
  
  
• The wage gap still remaining between women's and men's earnings in 1980 is not accounted for by education, since a comparison of women's and men's income at the same education level (right hand column) results in almost no change in the size of the gap, except in two areas:
  
  - Teaching, where, overall, women make 77% of men's wage, but university educated women make 82% of the wage of their male counterparts.
  
  - Machining, where women make 62% of men's wage, but among those with a trade certificate, women make 70% of men's wage. This latter finding may be related, in part, to higher unionization among workers with trade certificates than among workers without certificates.

TABLE 28

RELATIVE EARNINGS OF FULL-TIME WORKING WOMEN VS MEN
IN VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS
1970-1980

Female Earnings as a % of Male Earnings

* Earnings for women and men at the education level attained by the largest group of employees in that occupation; the level indicated in brackets beside each occupation.

Source: Censuses of Canada; 1971, 1981.